Ethical and Social Issues in Network Management

Running head: NETWORK MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS
NETWORK MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS
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Table of Contents
Introduction:..........................................................................................................................................2
Ethical and social issues in IT administration:........................................................................................2
Ethical issues:....................................................................................................................................2
Social issues:......................................................................................................................................3
Effects of cyberbullying and devices such as Google glasses and smart watches:.................................3
Professional code of ethics:...................................................................................................................4
Ethical behaviour in accordance with professional codes:....................................................................4
Ethical solutions and recommendations for the benefit of the society:................................................4
Conclusion:............................................................................................................................................5
References:............................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction:
Network management is one of the most important tasks of the systems administrators in
most of the organizations in today’s world. Data security is an increasingly important concern for the
organizations and often due to lack of improper security standards; there are huge economic losses
for the organizations, which often cause them to be answerable to ethically answerable questions.
There are different ethical as well as social impacts of improper information management over the
networks and is of utmost importance that the organizations consider them. In the following report,
the different ethical and social aspects of network management will be discussed in detail.
Recommendations to mitigate the data security related threats would be provided. By the end of the
report, the reader will have a clear idea on the different aspects of network management within an
organization.
Ethical and social issues in IT administration:
Ethical issues:
Some of the major ethical issues in IT administration are explained below:
- Piracy of software’s as well as company logos: Data piracy is one of the most unethical
activities by the users. Often in order to save money, users download free versions of
software’s from the internet instead of paying the legitimate subscription fee. In this
process, they do not have to purchase the software and they use the cracked versions of the
original software’s that are available over the internet [1]. Hackers also make use of
advanced graphics tools to imitate the logos of the different brands across the world that
look quite similar to the original company logos by which they are often successful in
cheating customers.
- Data protection as well as privacy is another important ethical issue of the organizations.
Hackers often hack into the internal organizational networks and gain access to the
important and confidential organizational information that should only remain internal to
the employees. In this way, they often take control of the important information such as
financial data and annual business reports of the organizations and black mail the
organizations [8]. They often ask for huge amounts of money and black mail the
organizations. The hackers often carry out tax frauds and other unethical tasks [7]. The
hackers also often release Trojan and other harmful virus into the networks thereby
corrupting data and causing huge economic losses to the organizations that also in turn
defame the brand image of the organizations.